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IKEA to Compensate East German Prisoners With €6M For Forced Labor

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  • Furniture firm Ikea will reportedly pay kroners 70M ($6.M) as reparations to political prisoners of the erstwhile German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, whom it used as forced labor in the 1970s-80s. Ikea's exploitation was revealed in 2012 by the Svt television network. [1][2]

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